I was reading a New Yorker article about the "city" under Paris it was mentioned that there is another meaning besides cat flap for chatière. However my google-fu appears to be weak today, and I can't ...

I only ask because I am gay. For example, there’s the stereotypical “Girl, stop,” in American English. Or using words like “Honey,” to refer to people and lots of verbal tics and fillers. Are there ...

It’s pretty common in English to say something like “Watch (blank)!” when you expect something to happen that would be funny or contrary to what was being discussed.
For example:
Someone could say “...

My French friend used a construction that confused me. He used two conditional form verbs next to each other, something like “Tu mangerais ça tu l’aimerais bien !”
He said it’s informal French and I’...

Despite having no account on such a network, I've become aware of a hashtag containing a vulgar slang term: "impeachthemf" (impeach the motherfucker). I'm reading an article in French where this has ...

I know the word "marron" and the expression "être marron", but none of the senses matches with the apparent meaning of the phrase "C'est assez marron !". I encountered this phrase recently in slang (...

This is taken from the first paragraph of Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night). I was dubious about it, since I was told this author had a very slangy style (and this ...

Is there a slang usage for the word phrase "croque-monsieur"?
We now that the croque monsieur is a traditional baked or fried boiled ham and cheese French sandwich.
While in France many years ago, a ...

The Canadian slang word hoser, "a term having spawned several popular false etymologies", meaning "a person who is considered unintelligent or uncouth, especially a beer-drinking man" (Dictionary.com),...

"Nail" is defined, according to Urban Dictionary, as "to complete a task successfully or get something right". Since it's a slang word, most translation dictionaries such as Word Reference, Larousse, ...

I encountered the following sentence:
"la personne est abonnée au vigne de france habite en bretagne sûrement un picolo"
This is how I get it:
"the person is subscribed to the French version of Vine, ...